Artemesia Publishing
212 pages
$12.95
“What makes Rosemary Zibart’s True Brit most engaging is the attention to detail, from descriptions of mud homes and pinon trees to ‘A-okay’ American slang. Beatrice’s journal entries add more insight into her evolution from a privileged girl to the beginnings of a modern woman.”
— Angela Leeper, Bookpage
Free Press
256 pages
$24.99
“The author—a three-time winner of the NASCAR Series Cup and winner of the 1989 Daytona 500, a race he describes as NASCAR’s ‘Super Bowl’—was in the broadcast booth for the 2001 edition, cheering on his younger brother Michael, the eventual victor. That victory was overshadowed, however, by the death of driver Dale Earnhardt in a final-lap crash, and Waltrip’s chilling description of the race and its aftermath are the entry point into an exploration of the author’s life behind the wheel…”
— Kirkus Review
Oxford University Press, USA
640 pages
$65
“This thoroughly revised new edition includes more than 1,200 A-Z entries covering nine decades of history and artistry, from the Carter Family recordings of the 1920s to the reign of Taylor Swift in the first decade of the twenty-first century. Compiled by a team of experts at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, the encyclopedia has been brought completely up-to-date, with new entries on the artists who have profoundly influenced country music in recent years, such as the Dixie Chicks and Keith Urban.”
— From the Publisher
Queen's Ferry Press
172 pages
$14.95
“This is what a collection of stories should be, rich and varied, playful, daring, poignant and always entertaining. Corey Mesler’s children and adults move about American locales both familiar and exotic and the result is an experience as broad and interesting as life itself.”
— Robert Lopez, author of Kamby Bolongo Mean River and Asunder
Vintage
272 pages
$15
“When it was time to hang pictures in our new house in San Antonio, my wife asked me to buy a studfinder. As a husband I demurred; as an internist, I flat-out refused. We internists make it our business to devine the stutters and stumbles of lungs, hearts, brains, adrenals, guts, gonads – hence the term ‘internal medicine.’ Once upon a time, doctors examined patients not with CAT scans of MRIs but with their senses. ‘Surely’ I said, ‘skills that can find pus behind the chest wall can find a stud behind drywall.’”
— excerpt from Abraham Verghese’s “Bedside Manners”
Vanderbilt University Press
232 pages
$27.95
“The Slaw and the Slow-Cooked has far wider relevance than the Mid-South of its subtitle. Its contributors examine many aspects of America’s oldest Slow Food, from its primeval origins into the age of Twitter and Facebook. They treat their savory subject seriously, but not (thank the Lord) solemnly. You don’t have to be a barbecue nut to enjoy this book, but if you are one, you’ll be in hog heaven.”
— John Shelton Reed, co-author, Holy Smoke: The Big Book of North Carolina Barbecue
